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A static website served from a $25 Walmart phone

A cheap phone repurposed as a tiny web server, vibe-coded with Claude.

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  • HN submitter stets Source ↗

Earliest dated source: 3 Jan 2026

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For a fun weekend project, the author turned a $25 Walmart phone into a web server, using Claude Code for most of the set-up. It runs Termux, Andronix, nginx, a Cloudflare tunnel and even a Prometheus node exporter, and serves a real static website. The Hacker News post got 76 points.

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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.

  • Hacker News: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart PhoneBlog or write-upstetsonblake.com
  • Hacker News discussion (76 points)Forum threadnews.ycombinator.com
    HN submitter: stetsPosted 3 Jan 2026

    The Show HN post with links to the write-up and the live site.

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